Chain breaking and Kosterlitz-Thouless scaling at the many-body localization transition in the random-field Heisenberg spin chain
Despite tremendous theoretical efforts to understand subtleties of the many-body localization (MBL) transition, many questions remain open, in particular concerning its critical properties. Here we make the key observation that MBL in one dimension is accompanied by a spin freezing mechanism which c...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2020-11-01
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Series: | Physical Review Research |
Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.042033 |